In Italy the pitchfork movement (movimento dei forconi) is shutting down the highways, stopping trucks (also with food and petrol) from being delivered in cities. This because to protest against the rise in the price of gasoline. And yet no one in the news is making the connection between this and peak oil. The situation is much more sevre than people are realising.

To give credit to the author and cite the source, the following is from the Friday, January 6th edition of the WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF by Joel Skousen.

IMHO, this is excellent and essentially accurate analysis of the dynamics behind the primary elections. This is definitely not something you see covered by the bought and paid for main-stream media. If you've been paying any attention this will make ALLOT of sense.

I agree with pretty much most of it. Looking forward to reading other people's takes on this. Thanks in advance!

Just as Chris' chart of debt in his recent presentation in Spain demonstrates that debt has broken the near perfect correlation with exponential growth (around minute 7 of this: http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/unfixable/65829), today's news article is:

I posted a couple tonight. I have lost most of my confidence in the US Gov. This bit of retaining someone indefinitely is absurd. There are other laws being put on the books which diminish our liberties. The first one that comes to mind is after the financial ones is the fact that if the GOV decides a web site is terrorist or coercive it can be taken off the Net. I went to some of the most conservative connected schools in the country, and I am scared as Hell and I have always been part of the "regular class.